HOW TINA FEY’S 30 ROCK PREDICTED TRUMP’S RISE:
“The last season his family comes to visit, and we’re treated to shockingly elitist picture of how the Tina Fey’s of the world view flyover America,” Davis says. “It’s extremely clear watching this final season that Fey knew exactly the influence television programming could have on electoral politics and polling, and she was very deliberate about using her platform to stump for Obama with that in mind. It’s not subtle or hidden. It’s not something you have to ‘dig out’ of the plot. It is blatant and unapologetic.”
“30 Rock” ended after its seventh season, several years before a fellow NBC personality rocked the political landscape. Donald Trump’s ascendancy offers an intriguing footnote to “30 Rock’s” world view.
“It’s quite amusing and satisfying to hear Tina Fey self-righteously wax poetic about how half the country is now and forever irrelevant, knowing that in just a few short years she and her ilk will be shaking their fists at the sky and wondering how they all could have gotten it so very, very wrong,” Davis says.